One
third of US "most dangerous" volcanoes do not have monitoring devices
According to the Smithsonian Institution (news
- web
sites), 172 U.S. volcanos have been active within the past 10,000 years and
many have erupted within the past 200 years, sometimes repeatedly, Quick said.
"About 70, we feel, are truly dangerous volcanos, which means they would
pose a threat to people or property on the ground or aircraft in the air,"
Quick said. The Cascade volcanos should be monitored more heavily because of their
proximity to population," Quick said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_sc/volcano_hazards

Undersea Volcanoes -- nearly
70 % are underseaMany underwater sea
volcanoes are erupting simultaneously
The tectonic plate movements especially under the oceans have gone up by many
times. Andaman Nicobar Island now is experiencing under water volcanoes in Indian
ocean and Bay of Bengal.
In America North West is experiencing unprecedented level of small
earthquakes and under water volcanoes.
Seattle and Oregon are experiencing heavy levels of tectonic disturbance.
Underwater volcanoes are being reported in Australia, Greece, New Zealand
and many other countries.
Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula is experiencing double volcanoes of
large sizes.
According some geologists, there are not enough monitoring mechanisms for
knowing the number of under water volcanoes

3 million
submarine volcanoes The true extent to which the ocean bed is dotted with volcanoes has
been revealed by researchers who have counted 201,055 underwater cones. This
is over 10 times more than have been found before. The team estimates that in
total there could be about 3 million submarine volcanoes, 39,000 of which rise
more than 1000 metres over the sea bed. http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12218-thousand-of-new-volcanoes-revealed-beneath-the-waves.htmlhttp://groups.google.com/group/Bible-Prophecy-News/browse_thread/thread/00d5c83392d3f2f0/67d2a61f096168e4#67d2a61f096168e4Brimstone Pit-- Mariana Trench(Far Pacific )We were seeing billowing clouds coming up and turning yellow. There
was sulfur and rocks were flying out,” said Embley, an oceanographer with the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory. “We realized we were the first to witness a deep-sea volcano during
an eruptive episode.”
The material from the eruption is still being studied. It was highly caustic,
Embley said, damaging the camera lenses even though the robotic submarine was
quickly backed away from the volcano.
The volcano, with a rim 1,800 feet below the sea surface, was named “Brimstone
Pit” by the scientists.

Nearly 70 percent of the world's volcanoes are undersea,
Embley said in a telephone interview.
“Out there on our own planet there are volcanoes erupting under the ocean,
putting chemicals into the ocean, interchanging gases (into the water and air),
affecting biology. We should know about these things,” Embley said.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/08/tech/main621861.shtml

2 Volcanoes spewing ; Kamchatka, Russia-- 28 active volcanoesKarymsky volcano, one of the 28
active volcanoes in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has spouted ash
to the altitude of 6.1 kilometers above sea level.
May 9, the Bezymyanny volcano spouted a cloud of ash to
the altitude of up to 15 km above sea levelhttp://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=8129019&PageNum=0

ICELANDKatla "The flooding sparked fears of an eruption at Katla, known
to be one of Iceland's most powerful volcanoes "
Katla, which is named after an Icelandic witch and said to be 10
times more powerful than Eyjafjoell, last erupted in 1918, sending
a wall of meltwater down the glacier, bearing ice chunks the size of houses,
and blanketing southern Iceland in thick ash. And according to experts, the
volcano, which is also located to the southeast of Grimsvoetn which
was behind Iceland's latest eruption in May, is overdue ( Katla ) for a
powerful blast.

Augustine
Volcanoe
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A restless volcano near Alaska's most
populated region is being watched by scientist and officials, who
warned on Thursday of the risk of clouds of ash and a tsunami from a possible
eruption.
The intensifying rumblings in the past few weeks at Augustine
Volcano, an island peak 175 miles southwest of Anchorage in Cook Inlet,
have produced a series of steam explosions, releases of sulfur gas and signs
that there may be an eruption similar to events in 1986 and 1976 which sent ash
clouds as high as 40,000 feet, scientists said.Any time you have a volcano on the water that's erupting, common sense
says you could have a flank collapse and a wave,"
said Paul Whitmore, director of the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Centerhttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1435430

Mt. Spurr activity Noting a swarm of tiny earthquakes beneath volcanic Mount Spurr,
scientists have warned that the volcano 80 miles west of Anchorage could erupt
in the next few weeks. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/29/tech/main632704.shtmlVeniaminof and Spurr Veniaminof is one of the biggest and
most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Arc and has erupted 12 times
in the past 200 years, according to the observatory.
The other stirring volcano is Mount Spurr, an 11,070-foot
(3,374-meter) peak about 80 miles west of Anchorage. Small earthquakes beneath
Spurr began last summer have intensified over the last week or so,
Eichelberger said. The activity has included an emission of heat that has
created a lake from some of the snow and ice near the summit, he saidhttp://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050131/sc_nm/environment_alaska_volcano_dc

Three Alaskan volcanoes at elevated concern
Two other Alaska volcanoes are classified as subjects of elevated concern. Mount
Veniaminof, a 7,073-foot volcano on the Alaska Peninsula and about
510 miles southwest of Anchorage, has been emitting small amounts of steam and
ash since April. Shishaldin Volcano, a 9,372-foot peak
in the eastern Aleutian Islands, has also been emitting ash. Alaska has about 60 volcanoes that have been active in the past.

Yellowstone : Time bomb under America
Moreover, geologists are well aware that were a major eruption indeed to happen, the impact would rival any natural disaster the world has ever seen. Remember the destruction when Mount St Helens flipped her lid in 1980, turning 240 square miles into a wasteland? The energy released at Yellowstone would be many hundreds of times greater. Moreover, Yellowstone may be due a massive release.In the study,Accelerated Uplift and Magmatic Intrusion of the Yellowstone Caldera, 2004 to 2006, the authors note that while most of the magma remains about 400 miles below the surface, a significant plume rises to about 30 miles deep, where it spreads out horizontally like a pancake that islarger than Los Angeles.
It seems likely that the pancake is expanding and causing the floor of the caldera suddenly to riseAnd what if the ground at Yellowstone does not start to go down? Well, these calderas, he admits, "occasionally they burp". Let's hope the park's belly-ache resolves itself –such a "burp" would shake half of the planetYellowstone underground map http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Pics_of_Day/090101.pic.of.day.b.html

A major earthquake will suddenly rock their towns for hundreds of kilometers around Yellowstone, and soon thereafter 1,000+ degree pyroclastic flows will descend on them at hundreds of miles per hour, extending out to 600+ km.

That 600 km radius around the caldera will experience total devastation. The next 600 km out may receive as much as 5-10 feet of ash, depending on wind direction. The thickness of ash will decrease away from the super-volcano, but will reach the crop belt in the Midwest (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, etchttp://www.seasabres.com/Non%20Sequitur/yellowstone.htm

Yellowstone "breathing" already

"Yellowstone is one of the most seismically active places on the planet"

The whole of the Yellowstone Plateau is going up and down from the magma," averaging one and a half centimeters a year, said Dr. Robert B. Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah and a member of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. "It's like a living, breathing thing."

One question that occupies geologists is how the caldera affects fault lines and vice versa. Five major faults terminate in themolten caldera, and even far-flung events can shake the earth here. In November 2002, a magnitude 7.9 quake in Denali National Park in Alaska rippled through the region, leading to more than 500 other quakes that Dr. Smith watched simultaneously on a computer in Utah.

Lurking beneath Yellowstone National Park isone of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world: a massive supervolcano.

Only a handful exist in the world, but when one erupts the explosion will be heard around the globe. The sky will darken, black acid rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter. It could push humanity to the brink of extinction.

Bill McGuire, professor of geohazards at the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, says that America's Yellowstone Park is one of the largest and most dangerous supervolcanoes in the world. "The Yellowstone volcano can be likened to a sleeping dragon," says Professor McGuire, "whose slow breathing brings repeated swelling and sinking of the Earth's crust in northern Wyoming and southern Montana."

The impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend." says Professor McGuire. "Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption.One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years."

we may well be on the brink of the biggest catastrophe the modern world has ever witnessed.

A major earthquake will suddenly rock their towns for hundreds of kilometers around Yellowstone, and soon thereafter 1,000+ degree pyroclastic flows will descend on them at hundreds of miles per hour, extending out to 600+ km.

That 600 km radius around the caldera will experience total devastation.

The next 600 km out may receive as much as 5-10 feet of ash, depending on wind direction. The thickness of ash will decrease away from the super-volcano, but will reach the crop belt in the Midwest (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, etc.), destroying most of the fertile croplands of the United States. California will be hit hard by falling ash, with its central wine valley severely damaged (the French will love it). Agriculture will have to shift east of the Mississippi for years. The Garden State will once again live up to its name.

In northern Idaho you will have to contend with several feet of ash and isolation. Roads will be closed. Power will be out. Phones will be out. Communication will depend on Ham radios and local stations that have generators. Rescue will take weeks or months. Some areas will never see rescue teams. The survivalists will be best prepared to make it through the difficult months following the eruption. http://www.rense.com/general41/yellowstoneupdate.htm

Strange Eruption in Yellowstone

Reports of eruptions at Steamboat started in 1878, when witnesses said huge rocks blasted into the air as the geyser exploded.

It erupted more frequently over the next several decades, sometimes shooting water 40 to 50 feet in the air, sometimes 300 feet. The geyser was dormant between 1911 and 1961 and then erupted three times in 1989, once in 1990, 1991 and 2000 and then twice in 2002.

Like other geyser enthusiasts, Heasler is searching for any kind of pattern in Steamboat's strange behavior.

''We had one last April 26 and now one on March 26. Is a pattern beginning to develop? Will we have another one in the fall? We just don't know,'' he said. ''I'm just very, very pleased that Steamboat has become a little more active.'' AP-WS-03-28-03 1059ESThttp://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=37823

"Super Volcanoe" to strike eventually

Watch Yellowstone and Oregon Bulge; remember TOBA

Sooner or later, geologists warn, a "super volcano" will strike.

The eruption of pent-up energy

will cover half the United States in ash, in some places up to 3 feet (1 meter) deep.....

Reflecting devices, similar to those left on the Moon, are stationed at various points on the mountain. From miles away, researchers bounce lasers off the mirrors. If they have moved, the laser beam shifts.

Volcanic build up in
Pacific North West Solar
flares increasing the pressureA larger pressure system is pushing the Earth to its limit.
Most likely, from Earth’s internal engine forces recently fueled by
a series of strong solar flares.
Like a municipal waterworks that has gone inexplicably berserk, the Sun has
been pumping incredible amounts of energy into the solar system.
The result is that in the process of absorbing this added energy, the
pressures without our planet may be reaching a dramatic climax!

If these natural pressures that are now building below the mantle of our planet
as monitored by Larry Park’s equipment do not abate , they will overload our
plant’s natural corrective mechanism and force a cataclysmic surface
event with a magnitude far greater than any other event in recorded history.
Now here comes the hard part. While scientists tend to predict in faraway
numbers like “sometime in the next thousand years,” Larry’s instruments are
detecting a trend that could culminate in a cataclysmic surface event
sometime within the next 18 to 24 months, and in his update, he tells
us how to recognize the precursor events.http://yowusa.com/Archive/Jul2003/volcanism2/volcanism2.htm

There are 23
volcanic mountains in the NorthWest Cascade Mt. Range. ( not counting Mammoth, and Coso.)

AMERICA'S MOST DANGEROUS VOLCANOES
More potentially active volcanoes--68 of them--brood in the United States than
in any other country except Japan and Indonesia. And in a given year, a half
dozen of the unstable giants erupt--we just don't notice because most of them
blow in remote areas in Alaska and Hawaii. But 20 volatile volcanoes tower over the contiguous states.
Mount St. Helens (above) is the only one of those to have erupted since 1950,
killing 57 people and destroying a forest big enough to have built 300,000
two-story houses.
* Watch out for the others, many of which are overdue to erupt:
* MOUNT HOOD, OREGON: Last erupted 200 years ago, producing devastating
pyroclastic flows and lahars. Between 1856 and 1865, numerous steam blasts were
recorded.http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_11_20/ai_57042525/print

Because of idolatry ... " they sacrificed unto devils, not to
God;to gods whom they knew
not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Of the ROCK that begat
thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee ...For a fire is kindled in
Mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the
earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountains"
Deuteronomy 32: 17--22

Even pagans know that
" the gods " are angry when a volcano flares. How much more can we so
discern who know the Living God, our ROCK.

Mt. Rainier [Washington State] and American Volcanoes
"To a layperson's eye, Mount Rainier looks unchanged from the way it
appeared two centuries ago when a member of Captain George Vancouver's
exploratory crew first sketched it--serene, stately, a symbol of permanence.
Here, looks are deceiving. Rainier sits along the boundary of tectonic plates
forming Earth's crust. Off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest, a
heavy chunk of seafloor called the Juan de Fuca plate has been
ramming itself under the lighter North American plate at the rate of an inch
and a half a year, about a third as fast as hair grows. Squeezed and heated,
the rock melts into magma, blobs of which rise toward the surface into chambers
where it becomes trapped, cooking and rolling like boiling oatmeal. When the
pressure becomes too great, it bursts free, throwing out lava, gas, steam, ash,
and hot rocks. Rainier is a series of successive lava flows broken up by
centuries of ice, water, percolating volcanic gases, and the mountain's own
internal heat. When scientists look inside Rainier, they find some of its rock
crumbly and weak. The mountain is dangerously unstable, a tall, steep
heap of loose rocks held together by the force of gravity and a cubic mile of
glacier ice that could be melted or shaken loose."

"Of
course, volcanoes unpredictably express themselves in several ways: Rainier
could blow, or flow, or both. One danger is a ground-hugging avalanche of
incandescent rock (as hot as 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit), ash, and gas racing
downhill at 80 miles an hour. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/11_20/57042525/print.jhtml

Volcanic Mt. Rainier ( Puget Sound area
...Seattle ) “A monumental threat,” said William E. Scott,
scientist in charge of the Cascades Volcano Observatory, a USGS center that
monitors volcanoes from California to Alaska. Beneath its dreamy mantel of snow, Mount Rainier is an active
volcano, and it is rotting from the inside out, especially on its western
flank, which drains toward population centers. The volcano has a long, spotty history
of spontaneous collapse and massive mudflows called lahars.
About 150,000 people now live atop lahars that have rioted
down the slopes of Mount Rainier over the past 5,000 years. The lahars ran all
the way to what are now the ports of Tacoma and Seattle,
distances, respectively, of 50 and 75 miles."http://www.msnbc.com/news/950829.asp?0cv=CB10

Mt. Lassen--largest
plugged domeMount Lassen is actually the largest plug dome volcano in the world.
This means that magma wells up deep inside the mountain and becomes plugged
which causes great pressure to build up, which eventually results in dramatic
explosions.

Lassen National Park covers about 106,000 acres. There are several other
relatively tall mountains besides the 10,457 foot Lassen Peak.
Prospect Peak is 8,338, and Mount Harkness
is 8,045. Both of these mountains are volcanoes and there are trails
leading to both summitshttp://www.davestravelcorner.com/articles/mtlassen

NEW
YORK CITY , Volcanoes and Tsunamis ...reveals the extent and size of the mega-tsunami, the
consequence of a giant landslide that may be triggered by a future eruption of
the Cumbre Vieja volcano. ...
The greatest effects are predicted to occur north, west and south of the Canaries.
....
Florida and the Caribbean, the final destinations in the North Atlantic to be
affected by the tsunami, will have to brace themselves for receiving 50 metre
high waves - higher than Nelson's column in London, some 8 to 9 hours after the
landslide.

La Palma Mudslide
(Canary Islands) map and photo includedTsunamis travel at high speeds in the deep ocean ---- as
fast as passenger jet aircraft ---- and then slow down and pileup, increasing their height, as
they enter shallow water. The upshot of the model is that it
predicts that between 6 and 9 hours after the collapse of the Cumbre Vieja,
tsunami waves with amplitudes of around 50 metres will strike the
entire western seaboard of the Atlantic: these values are consistent
with the size of the giant boulders and other deposits in the Bahamas, lending
support to the model. Hours before the waves arrive in America, the coasts of
the Canaries and of western Africa and Europe will have been swept by waves
that have refracted around the submarine flanks of La Palma. www.benfieldhrc.org/CentreNews/press%20releases/tsunami_more%20info.htm

"And every mountain and island were
moved out of their place" Rev. 6:14

Swarm of 45
quakes off the coast of Hawaii HILO » Loihi seamount, the small underwater volcano off the
southeastern coast of the Big Island, experienced a swarm of 45 small
earthquakes Tuesday night and yesterday morning, the Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory said.The biggest, with a magnitude of 4.7,was also apparently the deepest at 17 miles. Another was magnitude
4.0. A third earthquake during that time had a magnitude of 4.2, but it was on
the Big Island near the lava flow area, unrelated to the Loihi swarm.http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/08/news/story05.html

PopoMexico's Popocatepetl volcano shot glowing rock and ash high into
the air Friday night, triggering a thunderous explosion that panicked some
residents in nearby communities.
Ramon Pena, coordinator of the volcano-related disasters emergency response
team, said the activity in the cone of the 17,886-foot volcano posed no
immediate danger to area residents.
The volcano is located 40 miles southeast of Mexico City and has been
intermittently erupting since December 1994. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-mexico-volcano,0,682311.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

SouthEast of
Puerto RicoSoufriere Hills
Volcano on the Island of MontserratHundreds of people with houses near Montserrat's volcano will have limited
access to their homes Saturday for the first time since they were ordered to evacuate
nine months ago.
The governor of the British Caribbean island announced the
decision Friday, saying the volcano is less dangerous following the collapse of
its lava dome last weekend.
The collapse released large plumes of ash and sent flows of superheated rocks
and debris down the slopes of the Soufriere Hills volcano.http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6335924.htmMontserrat - Soufriere Hills http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mh.html

Mt. Vesuvius ..Pompeii--Mitch Battros ECTV
The Italian government believes Mt. Vesuvius to be such an imminent threat,
they are offering residents money to move. Hundreds of families who live on the
slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius have decided to accept the government's
offer of $35,000 to move outside the eruption danger zone.
Many geologists believe that it is only a matter of time before another major
eruption by the volcano devastates populated areas around the volcano. a large
eruption in 79AD buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In the first two
days of the government's offer, about 900 families applied for the payments to move
outside the danger zone.
Vesuvius is a complex volcano. I have recently learned, Vesuvius is part of
a Super-Volcano named “Somma”. Mt. Vesuvius sits in a caldera formed about
34,000 years ago. It is known as the ‘Somma Caldera’. This is much the same as
Northern America's Yellowstone Super-Volcano. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news_updates/nz1254.htm

Indonesia on alert :
watching 79 Volcanoes Indonesia has the world's largest number of active volcanoes
with 129 and is part of the notorious Pacific "Ring of Fire" fault
line which stretches from quake prone Japan, through Southeast Asia and across
the Pacific Basin. "There are 79 volcanoes which need to be closely-watched and they
are being monitored by all observation posts," vulcanologist Wimpy S.
Cecep, told the New Straits TimesAnak Krakatau, the "child" of the legendary
Krakatoa which erupted in 1883, triggering a massive tsunami which killed
tens of thousands, was put on alert yesterday after 32 tremors rattled the
volcano's crater. Cecep said the two volcanoes were unlikely to blow-up on a large scale
to spew ash over a large area. http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/NST32310594.txt/Article/indexb_html

Mega volcano threatens
Sumatra IslandsVolcanic activities in the region during the past week have signaled
an eminent mega volcano ...
It is noteworthy that this area is just on the opposite side in the globe from
the “Yellow Stone Hot Spot”[ Wyoming]
in America.ash and dark smoke started pouring out of Mount Karthala on the main
island of Grand Comore, then hours later lava was spotted on its east and
southeastern slopes
The volcano is overdue for an eruption. Mount Karthala erupts about every 11
years, but its last significant activity was in 1991.
The Comoros are located in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique.http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7819

Fault Line through
SumatraCas told Australian media on Friday that Toba sits on a
fault line running down the middle of Sumatra -- just where some
seismologists say a third earthquake might strike following the
nine-magnitude quake on December 26 and
Monday's 8.7-magnitude temblor [ April 18, 2005 ].
Those quakes occurred along fault lines running just off Sumatra's west coast
and created seismological stresses that could hasten an eruptionThe scientist said super volcanoes represent the greatest potential
hazard on Earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from
space". http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?articleid=200645&%3barea=%2fbreaking_news%2fbreaking_news__international_news%2f

SAUDI
ARABIA "That was so unusual to discover a volcano in Saudi Arabia
between Mecca and Medina ( "Harrat Lunnayyir" Field )
that Professor Eshky says may erupt within two years (2011-2013). I agree with
you, it fulfills Bible Prophecy, as does all the cumulative phenomenon that is
occurring on our planet.
Then, besides that find, scientists also say there is a much bigger field with
the same characteristics called "Harrat
Rahat" . It spans a greater distance between Jedda ( port city ) and
Mecca ( which they spell as "Mekkah" ) to the South and to the North
as far as Medina. That's a lot of property.
The article also mentioned that there were undersea volcanoes, under the Red
Sea. I had not realized that before
Saudia Arabia; and also under the Red Sea http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2011/jimg628.htm

New
Geyser ( Easter eruption) now world's highestLake Baringo, KenyaHundreds of tourists have traveled to the area to see the geyser that
has overtaken the one in Yellowstone National Park, USA, as the world's highestThe geyser began erupting Thursday afternoon and has been sending a
continuous fountain of salty water in the sky at a temperature
of 90 deg C. This is in contrast to the usual activity of geysers which
are intermittent. Government experts are assessing how to deal with
the salty water discharge, which risks entering the nearby freshwater lake
Baringo, 3 km away. This geyser activity is a reminder of the volcanic nature
of the rift valley.[Ed.
note : Rift Valley extends through Israel to Syria)http://www.volcanolive.com/baringogeyser.html

ANTARCTICA
( Continental Shelf )
Domack said the volcano stands 2,300 feet above the seafloor and extends to
within roughly 900 feet of the ocean surface.
The volcano is in an area known as Antarctic Sound, at the northernmost tip of
Antarctica. There is no previous scientific record of active volcanoes in the
region where the new peak was discovered. The volcano is located on the
continental shelf, in the vicinity of a deep trough carved out by glaciers
passing across the seafloor.http://pennlive.com/newsflash/lateststories/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/1085140767270600.xml

JAPAN

Mount Sakurajima
With 108 active volcanoes, Japan is among the most seismically active countries
in the world. The nation lies in the "Ring of Fire" -- a series of
volcanoes and fault lines that outline the Pacific OceanIn 2000, an eruption at a volcano on Miyake Island, about 180
kilometers (110 miles) east of Tokyo, forced all 4,000 islanders to evacuate the
island. About half of them returned last year after the evacuation order was
liftedhttp://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/07/japan.volcano.ap/index.html

Highest active volcano in the world in ChileNevados Ojos del SaladoThis
question is a bit of a controversy. At 22,560 feet (6,887 m) Ojos
del Salado, a stratovolcano, is often considered the world's highest active
volcano. The problem is that no historic eruptions have been recorded, although
fumaroles are active at the summit. The absence of recorded historic eruptions
may be due to the volcano's remote location more than a lack of eruptions.
If you feel you need a recorded eruption to consider a volcano active, then we
move on to others. For years Cotopaxi was the world's highest active volcano,
however Chile's Tupungato (21,489 ft.) is a higher mountain, and awakened from
its dormancy with an eruption in 1986.http://www.geographyolympics.com/questions/tallest_volcano.php7 Highest Volcanic
Summits on 7 Continentshttp://students.washington.edu/andalkar/ROF/VolcanicSeven.htmlWhat was the loudest
noise in the world?Krakatau....and the
tsunami killed 31,417 peoplehttp://informationcentre.tripod.com/killers.html__________________________________

"Fountains
of the deep" in Noah's Day by William Harper
(interesting !)
For anyone who has read these articles about the supervolcanoes, do the
descriptions remind you of the great flood of Noah at all? When I was
reading the first one, I was reminded of the versesGenesis 7:11"In the six hundredth year
of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened. "(Whole Chapter: Genesis 7 In context: Genesis 7:10-12)Genesis 8:2